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One year ago, a young Talib in Pakistan's Swat Valley boarded a school bus crammed with 20 girls and fired three shots. Since, Malala Yousafzai has gone from lying in a hospital bed to addressing the United Nations on July 12, her 16th birthday, to being a leading contender for the Nobel Peace Prize [won Friday by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons]. But as much as the world loves Malala, could world peace have been better advanced by awarding the prize to her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai? The founder of the girls' school Malala attended, he is an anomaly in his area of Pakistan — a progressive man who understands the value of educating girls. Without...

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